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Violence and the Brontës: Language, Reception, Afterlives

Violence and the Brontës: Language, Reception, Afterlives

Franklin, Sophie

Hardcover

Series: Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1399523007
ISBN13: 9781399523004
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Sep 30 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The well-known and well-loved writings of Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë are full of violence. From the many battles waged in their early writings to the violent emotions and threats expressed in their published novels, the Brontës' representations of brutality shocked Victorian reviewers and continue to surprise readers in the twenty-first century. Violence and the Brontës accounts for such intense reactions by reading the sisters' literary violences as transformational, encompassing harm, pain and suffering while at times also signalling creativity and even renewal. Through a new reading of the Brontës' major works, as well as film, stage and television adaptations, this book argues that violence is at the centre of the Brontës' imaginative engagements with nineteenth-century life. In the process, it demonstrates how violence continues to be vital to interpreting the Brontës' reception history and afterlives in modern culture.

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